St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-26

Sl LllCuG W SHOW IildU lie anu Ills lIl0HuS
were wrong. But the government shrank
from the test and declined the challenge
They had substituted an arbitrary will
for regular legal action. This principle
was a most dangerous and dis
graceful one in anv country, and
especially in Ireland. Law in Ireland
was still on trial. A great misfortune
was that those who administer it,
especially locally. were not in sympathy
with the feelings of the people. The
proclamation of the National league,
Mr.. Gladstone declared, was near ap-
proach to declaration of war on the
Irish people. The people of
Ireland generally sympathiZed with
the league because they believed that
it had been the realization of their
hopes. Parnellite cheers. Nobody did
anything for the tenants until the league
was founded. The government was
pressing Ireland very hard, and it was
evident that they intended to work and
act by summary jurisdiction. The gov
ernment action absolutely excluded the
| house from anything except an absurd
and perfunctOry operation in connec-
ton with the great duty devolving upon
| it under the statute. Their cogniZance
! of this proclamation was
REDUCED TO A MERE FARCE.
There would be no jury, judge or resi-
dent magistrate, and no parliament to
control Ireland: there would be moth
ing but the absolute, unmitigated, arbi-
trary act of the Irish executive, which
was necessarily partisan. He hoped
that the Irish would continue to bear
the pressure. They would not have to
suffer long. 1t was certain that
they would not obey the law
through fear ICheerSl, but
from a strong, vivid, buoyant hope
which, even at the last election, was not
damaged, and which now was brighter
and lvelier. [Cheers. The Irish be-
lieved that the governments policy had
not the sanction of the British nation.
Irish cheers. The governments
foundation was slipping from under
reference to the proclamation
of the league showed that their
strength was fading. Ireland seeing
this, trusted the English nation to fulfill
her reasonable wishes, and was con-
WINGED that her expectations would not
be disappointed. Mr.. Gladstone then
presented his resolutions amid pro-
lOnged cheers.
Mr.. Balfour said that Mr.. Gladstone
would have been wiser had he rested
his argument on the allegation that the
house was ignorant of the grounds for
the proclamation, rather than on a de-
fense OF the league. The governments
difficulty was not the finding of evil
dence to Justify the prOclama-
tiOn, but the selecting of it
from the enormous mass of evil
dence they possessed. There was
sufficient foundation to justify the proc
lamation in the columns of local news
papers without going into the govern
ment'S confidential reports. Mr.. Bal
four argued that when Mr.. Gladstone
proclaimed the land league he did so
when Mr.. Parnell was imprisoned and
when parliament was not sitting, and
that he afforded no information to any
one concerned. He quoted at length
from documents to show that the league
was
GUILTY OF BOYCOTTING,
cOercing and inStigating infractiOnS of
the law Sir William VernOn-HaccOurt
asked the speaker whether the dOcu-
mentS from which he quoted would be
submitted to the house. Mr.. Balfour
refused to submit the documents, and
proceeding, narrated other instances
of the leagues unlawful action.
Sir William asked the speaker whether
Mr.. BalfOur was bound to table the
official documents cited. The speaker
replied that Mr. BalfOur was not bound
to table confidential documents, but the
case was different with official papers,
which the house might want to verify.
deposition cheers.
Harcourt-After the spkakers ruling ex-
pect that the papers viii be tabled.
Balfour-I shall do nothing of the kind
My documents are of three Sorts-public and
confidential papers and my own notes. II
the people realized the true nature and work
iNyo Of ha laao hnv tCOlll6 nf
creed or party, support the government
ministerial cheers.
Mr.. Balfour accused the opposition,
through Mr.. Gladstone of making them
selves apOlogists for, and therefore ac-
completes i'll, intimidation. MIR. Hart
ington (NatiOnaliSt) commented npon
the worthleSsness of documents which
the government refused to table. He
said it would be the duty of the league
to continue to work and not to shrink
from the consequences. Mr.. Buchanan
Q-iberal-U UnioniSt) said that the govern
ment'S action was ill-timed. Mr.. Bal
four had not given fair account of the
dOingS OF the league, which, from the
most reliable data in the possession of
the house, had been largely instrument
tai in having rents reduced in Ireland.
The English people desired that the
Irish difficulty
BE TREATED AMICABIA.
The government were pursuing the
contrary course. lie hoped that even at
the last moment they would refrain
from continuing their unwise policy. Il.
w. Russell, after remarking that Mr..
Gladstone had somewhat miScOnStrued
some of his statements, protested against
the coercion of the league, but said
that. having supported the crimes
bill. he could not withhold
from the government the powers they
demanded. Mr.. Bradlaugh (RadicaD
said that boycotting was not pecul-
iarly Irish institution, but was invented
in England to eXterminate the Irish. If
the governments statements were true
why had they not proclaimed the league
before as an association for the promo
ton of crime? The country would judge
the conduct of the government,
Which obtained powers ostensibly to
suppress crime, but, really to suppress
political organization which they
dreaded. T. p. O'COnnor (NatiOnalisD
said that the effect OF the proclamation
would be to remove the partition exist
ing between the tenantry and evicting
landlords. Admitting that there had
been Il fcw cases of intimidation, the gov
crnn.cnt had ample power to deal with
thcE without prOclaiming the league.
Intimidation had not been unusual with
English trades unions. Where the
league was stroD z there was little trou-
ble, but where weak there was much
In many cases branches had been dis
solved by the central body for boycott
ting and other actions which the league
disarproVed. On motion of Sir q. o.
Trcvclyan the debate was adjourned.
Mr., Chamberlain was absent during the
debate.
Lord harrington will follow Sir G. o.
Trevelyan III the debate tonight. The
Daily News says that MesSrs. Chamber
laiI: and Ceilings and half dozen
other Unionists will vote i'll support of
Mr.. GlGds.anc's motion. Mr.. Bright,
in q letter suDEOrtinp the